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I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology.

Robert Wyatt

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Robert Wyatt
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 28
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Robert Ellidge Wyatt
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People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.
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I don't do live things.
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Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble.
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My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.
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I'm naturally quite conformist, really. If I go to a country and they say, You've got to drive on the right, I'm not going to drive on the left to show that I'm different. I'm able to stick to the law.
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I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.
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Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.
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I was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left.
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There are people I would like to work with. Its a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I cant really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.
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I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.
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Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
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We've all got to earn a living. And writing songs is what I do. But when I've done a record, it's not that I think it's better or worse than anyone else's, but if I think that nobody else would have done it if I hadn't, well then that's ok.
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I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.
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There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.
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On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.
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